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Youth Arts Grant (Seattle Creative Youth Program) is sponsored by Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Funds 2‑year after‑school arts programs led by teaching artists for middle and high school students, promoting equitable arts access.
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Youth Arts grant - Arts | seattle.gov Current Calls and Funding ARTS at King Street Station Community Arts Partner Roster Arts & Cultural Districts Build Art Space Equitably (BASE) Cultural Space Resources and Reports Centering Art & Racial Equity Grant Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute Facility Grant Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute Creative Strategies Initiative ARTS at King Street Station Gallery City Hall Lobby & Anne Focke Galleries Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery 2026 Youth Arts Guidelines Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 5 p.m. Pacific Youth Arts grantee, Totem Star The Youth Arts grant funds 2-year art programs for middle and high school students in Seattle to have more access to arts and cultural opportunities. These programs happen outside of school hours and are led by teaching artists. This grant helps to create more opportunities for young people from a variety of racial and socioeconomic backgrounds to connect with the arts. Studies show that not every youth has the same access to arts education due to their race, income, language spoken at home, and special educational needs. The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture is committed to equity through its Creative Youth Program . Here are the current guidelines . They are also available in these languages: Manage your award through the City's grant platform, Fluxx. Contact your project manager if you are managing an award for an organization or group and think they may already be in the system. Invoice and Final Evaluation form You are the best person to reach your networks and all the people who are most interested in your work. We've seen the best results when artists promote themselves and their events on their own channels, e.g. your own social accounts, email lists, networking, and word of mouth. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram . Also, be sure you’re signed up for our email newsletter . Post about your event and tag us. We'll get notified and can boost as our capacity allows. The sooner you tell your project manager about your event, the more likely we’ll be able to fit it into our editorial calendar. If you have promo materials, please remember to send anything you've produced (flyers, posters, promo graphics, etc.) to your project manager. These items should all include the Office of Arts & Culture name and/or logo . We recommend posting on social and circulating these items at least two weeks prior to your event to increase awareness and attendance. Press Releases and Press Kits Press releases inform the media
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Youth Arts grant - Arts | seattle.
gov Current Calls and Funding ARTS at King Street Station Community Arts Partner Roster Arts & Cultural Districts Build Art Space Equitably (BASE) Cultural Space Resources and Reports Centering Art & Racial Equity Grant Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute Facility Grant Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute Creative Strategies Initiative ARTS at King Street Station Gallery City Hall Lobby & Anne Focke Galleries Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery 2026 Youth Arts Guidelines Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 5 p.
m. Pacific Youth Arts grantee, Totem Star The Youth Arts grant funds 2-year art programs for middle and high school students in Seattle to have more access to arts and cultural opportunities. These programs happen outside of school hours and are led by teaching artists.
This grant helps to create more opportunities for young people from a variety of racial and socioeconomic backgrounds to connect with the arts. Studies show that not every youth has the same access to arts education due to their race, income, language spoken at home, and special educational needs. The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture is committed to equity through its Creative Youth Program .
Here are the current guidelines . They are also available in these languages: Manage your award through the City's grant platform, Fluxx. Contact your project manager if you are managing an award for an organization or group and think they may already be in the system.
Invoice and Final Evaluation form You are the best person to reach your networks and all the people who are most interested in your work. We've seen the best results when artists promote themselves and their events on their own channels, e. g.
your own social accounts, email lists, networking, and word of mouth. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram . Also, be sure you’re signed up for our email newsletter .
Post about your event and tag us. We'll get notified and can boost as our capacity allows. The sooner you tell your project manager about your event, the more likely we’ll be able to fit it into our editorial calendar.
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Individuals (teaching artists) to lead youth arts programs in Seattle metro area. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates Funding amounts vary based on project scope and sponsor guidance. Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
The current target date is March 10, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, attachments, and final submission checks.
Application snapshot: target deadline March 10, 2026; published funding information Funding amounts vary by project scope and award track.; eligibility guidance Individuals (teaching artists) to lead youth arts programs in Seattle metro area.
Use the official notice and source links for final requirements, attachment checklists, allowable costs, and submission instructions before applying.
If you have promo materials, please remember to send anything you've produced (flyers, posters, promo graphics, etc.) to your project manager. These items should all include the Office of Arts & Culture name and/or logo .
We recommend posting on social and circulating these items at least two weeks prior to your event to increase awareness and attendance. Press Releases and Press Kits Press releases inform the media about you and your event and can inspire them to publish a calendar listing or even cover the event. Many smaller publications will print releases verbatim if they are written well enough.
Press kits provide useful background information for the media when they write previews or reviews of your event. They can take awhile to assemble, so maybe only create them for larger events that media are confirmed to attend. Search the internet for a description and walkthough of how to write a press release and create a press kit.
Meet the 2022-23 Youth Arts grantees . Meet the 2021 Youth Arts grantees . Meet the 2020 Youth Arts grantees .
2019-20 Youth Arts Awards Each awardee receives $6,000 206 Zulu will offer Beats to the Rhyme, an after-school program that offers education of the music industry, songwriting, and comprehensive insight in related fields while providing access to music production and technology. Youth collaborate to record an original album, film, and release a music video, at a live concert.
BAYFEST Youth Theatre, BAYFEST Education* BAYFEST Youth Theatre, BAYFEST Education- "One World, One Story" will guide young people to write their own stories in monologues and poems, to be staged alongside traditional tales of "growing up" from world cultures.
Many participants have experienced violence, trauma, racism, and poverty in their lives - and self-empowerment, growth in Life- and communications skills, empathy, and self-confidence are the main focus of work with them. Work will be featured in school and public performances, gallery shows, and online presentations.
Che Sehyun- ICEE gives low-income youth of color the opportunity to write, produce, and record their own hip-hop song re-mix, and direct, shoot and edit a corresponding music video in their own community. Students will learn about the history of hip-hop, interact with local guest teaching artists, and write and record their own lyrics that reflect their life, their culture, and their community.
The event will culminate in a youth-produced mixtape and visual album that will screen at the NW Film Forum. Coyote Central will provide courses in a range of dance styles at both Coyote's main campus in the Central District and at Coyote's new studio space in Lake City. Each course will culminate in a showcase.
A cohort of Coyote's young dancers will also apprentice with the professional dance group AU Collective, rehearsing at Coyote Central and performing around the city. Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) DNDA manages Nature Consortium, which works with youth from Southwest Interagency Academy (SWIA) to engage in four EcoArts projects.
Youth will learn environmental lessons through the lenses of art, civic responsibility, and sustainability. Earthseed Seattle creates theatre that actively carves out space for parents/guardians and the children for whom they care to have space to engage in conversations about power and oppression. Teaching artist, Jéhan Òsanyìn will cowrite this play alongside youth.
El Centro de la Raza will work with Latino youth who will be immersed in multi-media art workshops exploring the traditions and art of Dia de los Muertos.
Students will learn about various artistic and cultural traditions surrounding the event through several mediums (sculpture, tapete, poetry, etc); create elements of a traditional ofrenda (altar) during after-school sessions; showcase their artwork at the Dia de los Muertos celebration and three -week ofrenda exhibit.
Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle* Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle -Eritrean youth will participate in weekly lessons year-round focused on Eritrean dance, culture, and language. Participants will learn and rehearse traditional Eritrean dances, practice the Tigrigna language, study various aspects of Eritrean culture, and perform at a variety of community events.
Extraordinary Futures provides young people with dance classes and open practice sessions. Students will participate in monthly dance competitions as part of a Middle and High School Breakdance League and prepare for the culminating event, Massive Break Challenge. Jack Straw Foundation provides blind and visually impaired youth the opportunity to work with a team of artists in their professional recording studios.
Students will tell stories with sound, create music, and share their work with the public, via CD and streaming online. Northwest Folklife provides a Youth residency focused on Mexican American and Chicana/o Roots in the Northwest. Youth will explore their cultural identities using visual arts, film, and spoken word.
Participants will present their final projects at four culminating community events. Olisa Johnson- and young women will gather for an intensive journey into performance. They will collaborate on an original performance piece that will culminate in a public performance.
The performance piece will include, music, dance, and story. The piece will explore the theme "Being a Gxrl". We will look at what it means to be a gxrl/woman.
How do we perform gender? Where does our unique power and beauty come from? They will let the world know "Out Loud".
Pongo Publishing offers weekly writing sessions to incarcerated youth. Pongo will conduct a final poetry event inside the detention center and will share their poetry at the NW Folklife Festival.
Rain City Rock Camp for Girls Rain City Rock Camp for Girls introduces Seattle girls to hands-on exploration of rock music through the support of powerful female mentors and role models to discover their own creativity, raise their voices, and work together for positive change. Girls will participate in Rock Camps and "Rockshop" deep dive into music-related topics throughout the year.
Reel Grrls offers young womxn and gender non-conforming youth a Media Club program at Denny International Middle School, teaching a foundation of basic production skills with a focus on emotional development and creative collaboration. Students will produce two to three completed video projects.
Sawhorse Revolution's All-Womxn's Design and Build Program engages all-female teens to design and then build ambitious community projects across Seattle - facilitated by all-female architects, builders, and volunteers. Young womxn are engaged in an experiential "classroom" where they learn all aspects of working on a real construction project while fostering creativity, imagination, and mental flexibility.
School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts [SANCA]* SANCA's Circus RODA Program blends arts-based learning with work-readiness training by drawing upon principles of Social Circus and the social justice movement. Emphasizing 21st-century skills including creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration, circus skills are used as a transformational metaphor for personal and social development.
Seattle JazzED works with students at all levels of music ability to learn how to play their instrument, read music, and perform in an ensemble. Youth can participate in year-round programming. Seattle Mongolian Youth Center* Seattle Mongolian Youth Center- will provide Mongolian youth in Seattle with art education through various arts and cultural programs that preserve our traditional nomadic culture.
We offer language, history, art and culture, dance classes, and organized community events. Our Youth Center also serves as a cultural and community HUB for the Mongolian Community in Seattle, especially for the young generation that are children of first-generation immigrants.
Seattle Music Partners- The Middle School Music Project (MSMP) provides under-served youth in Seattle's Central District with music education centered in quality instruction, youth development, and social justice. Musical instruments, supplies, and one-on-one and group instruction are provided free and in an accessible community location.
Music education leads to research-verified gains in academic success and youth development, and that makes the world a better and more joyful place. Seattle Repertory Theatre * Seattle Repertory Theatre introduces high-school students to the work of the celebrated black playwright, August Wilson through the August Wilson Monologue Competition.
Through workshops, small-group coaching, and a multi-round competition, students prepare a monologue and compete for a spot in the national competition on Broadway. SIFF - Seattle International Film Festival* SIFF Crash Mobile is an immersive filmmaking program in collaboration with LANGSTON to expand access for Black youth to media-based storytelling.
Taught by Black filmmaking educators, students create a film during each session in 5-student production groups around culturally relevant historical and social justice themes. Their work is then shown at the end of each workshop and previous student films have been presented at the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, Folklife, and SIFF.
Sondra Cunningham: Haida Roots- is a cultural preservation project that will connect urban Seattle Haida youth to their critically endangered language through dance, writing, and art. Sondra Segundo, will organize and teach Haida youth classes and continue to educate Seattle youth (in schools, libraries, youth programs) about NW Coast Indigenous culture through art lessons and storytelling/song sharing.
South Park Arts sponsored by Urban Art Works South Park Arts is sponsored this year by Urban Art Works- in partnership with community organizations is offering a mural art training program where teaching artists and youth will collaborate to paint three murals in the South Park business community.
This pilot program will lay the groundwork for a long-term partnership between South Park Arts and other local artists, community groups, and the businesses that will engage youth in future arts training and create additional public art in the neighborhood. Spectrum Dance Theater offers DanceSPEAK, where students explore contemporary dance, improvisation, and choreograph their own solo and group dances.
The collaborative process culminates in an interactive community performance. Stephanie Guerra teaches creative writing classes in King County at the Juvenile Detention Center to a revolving roster of incarcerated teens and helps publish their work in an online magazine. Sumayya E.
Diop- I am.... We are! A sojourn & celebration of Gurlz & sisterhood stories, throughout the African Diaspora, studying and performing dance, drum, spoken word, poetry, fashion, hip-hop, and song!
Totem Star allows youth to book weekly after-school studio sessions working with teaching artists for one-on-one vocal and/or instrument lessons, participate in jam sessions, program digital beats, gain assistance with songwriting, compose and record original songs.
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation* Wing Luke Memorial Foundation YouthCAN is The Wing's free, out-of-school arts, heritage, and leadership program for Asian Pacific American high school students. Through mentorship by local artists of similar backgrounds to students, students build arts and leadership skills, develop community connections and portfolios, and take on leadership roles through exhibition development and internships.
Original artworks produced by teens are displayed in The Wing's Youth Gallery three times a year and in other community venues.
Young Strings Project Outreach/Orchestra NW* Young Strings Project Outreach/ Orchestra NW- professional classical musicians/teaching artists, will provide orchestral and instrumental (viola, violin, cello) instruction to Latinx immigrant and refugee middle and high school youth, including basic technique, music theory, and ensemble skills that emphasize individual instrumental achievement mainly as support for the ensemble as a whole.
*Denotes first-year recipients for the 2019-2020 school year 2018-19 Youth Arts Awards Each awardee receives $6,000 Stephanie Guerra teaches creative writing classes in King County at the Juvenile Detention Center to a revolving roster of incarcerated teens and helps publish their work in an online magazine. Extraordinary Futures provides young people with dance classes and open practice sessions.
Students will participate in monthly dance competitions as part of a Middle and High School Breakdance League and prepare for the culminating event, Massive Break Challenge. Pongo Publishing offers weekly writing sessions to incarcerated youth. Pongo will conduct a final poetry event inside the detention center and will share their poetry at the NW Folklife Festival.
Seattle JazzED works with students at all levels of music ability to learn how to play their instrument, read music, and perform in an ensemble. Youth can participate in year round programming.
Totem Star allows youth to book weekly after-school studio sessions working with teaching artists for one-on-one vocal and/or instrument lessons, participate in jam sessions, program digital beats, gain assistance with songwriting, compose and record original songs.
Seattle Repertory Theatre The Seattle Repertory Theatre introduces high-school students to the work of the celebrated black playwright, August Wilson through the August Wilson Monologue Competition. Through workshops, small-group coaching, and a multi-round competition, students prepare a monologue and compete for a spot in the national competition on Broadway.
Spectrum Dance Theater offers, DanceSPEAK, where students explore contemporary dance, improvisation, and choreograph their own solo and group dances. The collaborative process culminates in an interactive community performance. Jack Straw Foundation provides blind and visually impaired youth the opportunity to work with a team of artists in their professional recording studios.
Students will tell stories with sound, create music, and share their work with the public, via CD and streaming online. Rain City Rock Camp for Girls Rain City Rock Camp for Girls introduces Seattle girls to hands-on exploration of rock music through the support of powerful female mentors and role models to discover their own creativity, raise their voices, and join together for positive change.
Girls will participate in Rock Camps and "Rockshop" deep dives into music related topics throughout the year. 206 Zulu will offer Beats to the Rhyme, an after school program that offers education of the music industry, songwriting and a comprehensive insight in related fields while providing access to music production and technology. Youth collaborate to record an original album, film and release a music video, at a live concert.
Earthseed Seattle creates theatre that actively carves out space for parents/guardians and the children for whom they care to have space to engage in conversations about power and oppression. Teaching artist, Jéhan Òsanyìn will cowrite this play alongside youth.
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) DNDA manages Nature Consortium who work with youth from Southwest Interagency Academy (SWIA) to engage in four EcoArts projects. Youth will learn environmental lessons through the lenses of art, civic responsibility and sustainability.
South Park Merchants Association (SPMA) SPMA in partnership with community organizations offer a mural art training program where teaching artists and youth will collaborate to paint three murals in the South Park business community.
This pilot program will lay the groundwork for a long-term partnership between South Park Arts and other local artists, community groups and the businesses that will engage youth in future arts training and create additional public art in the neighborhood.
Reel Grrls offers young womxn and gender non-conforming youth a Media Club program at Denny International Middle School, teaching a foundation of basic production skills with a focus on emotional development and creative collaboration. Students will produce two to three completed video projects. Northwest Folklife provides a Youth residency focused on Mexican American and Chicana/o Roots in the Northwest.
Youth will explore their cultural identities using visual arts, film, and spoken word. Participants will present their final projects at four culminating community events. 2017-18 Youth Arts Awards Each awardee receives $6,000 Sumayya Diop along with local female guest artists work with girls, learning African culture through dance, song, theater, drumming, Hip Hop, music, spoken word and poetry.
The program will culminate in a sharing for family and community. Andy Peterson through Seattle Robotic Arts provides art and technology programs for young people who are encouraged to explore their presumptions and associations with technology while developing connections with visual art through learning opportunities and exploratory play.
Eritrean Association of Greater Seattle Eritrean Association of Greater Seattle's Youth Dance Group focuses on introducing youth to Eritrean dance, culture, and language. Students learn and rehearse traditional Eritrean dances, practice the Tigrinya language, study various aspects of Eritrean culture, and perform at variety of community events.
Sondra Segundo through Haida Roots has implemented a preservation project that connects urban Seattle Haida youth to their critically endangered language through dance, writing, and art.
The Filipino Community of Seattle The Filipino Community of Seattle in collaboration with Youth Theater Northwest offers theater sessions to local youth to build theater skills, learn Filipino culture through folktales and gain confidence and experience in the performing arts.
Young Strings Project Outreach Young Strings Project Outreach's World Youth Orchestra, provides immigrant and refugee youth the opportunity to be mentored by professional classical musicians in orchestral and stringed instrument (viola, violin, cello) instruction. Students learn basic techniques, ensemble skills, and music theory, culminating in community concerts.
Urban ArtWorks works with King County adjudicated youth to provide subsidized work training and art training. Through the creation of site specific murals youth will connect with community in a positive way. Andrea LaVare Malagon partners with young people to learn the fundamentals of Mexican Folklorico and Traditional Quinceañera dances and their historical relevance.
Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) PCNW hosts, New Views, an immersion program that teaches photography alongside language and American culture to immigrant and refugee students at Seattle World School (SWS). Wing Luke Memorial Foundation (The Wing) The Wing's offers YouthCAN, an arts and leadership program for Asian Pacific American high school students.
Guided by local artists, original artworks are produced by teens and displayed in The Wing's Youth Gallery and appear in community venues. School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts (SANCA) SANCA Social Circus Roda Program introduces young people to blended arts-based learning with work-readiness training in a Social Circus context.
Circus skills are used as a transformational metaphor for personal and social development and students participate in a community sharing.
Charles and Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum (Frye Art Museum) Frye Art Museum's Spatial Solutions in partnership with RecTech Lab at Yesler Community Center, and Seattle Youth Violence Prevention work with community youth to develop skills in architectural design and 3D modeling through instruction, local guest speakers and site visits with their work highlighted in an exhibition at the Frye Art Museum.
El Centro de la Raza educates Latino youth about Dia de los Muertos and create elements of a traditional ofrenda (altar) through mentorship of community artists. Student work is showcased at the Dia de los Muertos celebration and ofrenda exhibition at El Centro de la Raza.
Sawhorse Revolution's All Women's Design-Build program provides female-identified youth the opportunity to work with professional women, in design and craft building fields to design and construct a custom community structure with lasting benefit for a partnering community group.
Debra Kendrick's No More Bull (NMB) program provides young people the opportunity to be mentored by teaching artists in history, dance, lectures, drama activities, scene building and tech support. The culmination is a stage production for the community.
Andrea LaVare Malagon ( Mexican Folklorico and Traditional Quinceañera Dance Club) $6,000 Students will be taught the fundamentals of Mexican folklorico and traditional Quinceañera dances and their historical relevance. Each session will build on the previous one, maintaining a positive and safe learning environment. Each class will present a life skill concept, discussion, and action plan.
Engage youth in hands-on media courses by professional filmmakers, photographers, animators and recording artists during fall, winter and spring terms. Screening of work at NW Film Forum.
Charles and Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum $6,000 Spatial Solutions is a free of charge annual partnership program between the Frye Art Museum, RecTech Lab at Yesler Community Center, and Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative provides high school teens with limited/no access to arts education to develop skills in architectural design and 3D modeling.
Creative Justice is an arts-based alternative to detention for court-involved youth of King County. Participants collaborate with mentor artists, building skills in a variety of disciplines, and utilizing art to express their own ideas, visions and creativity to address issues that most impact them.
El Centro de la Raza $6,000 Thirty-five at-risk Latino youth will learn about Dia de los Muertos and create elements of a traditional ofrenda (altar) during after-school sessions at El Centro de la Raza. Their work will be showcased at the Dia de los Muertos celebration and three-week ofrenda exhibit. Debra Kendrick ( No More Bull (NMB)) $6,000 Teaching artist will engage youth in a 12 week fall theater program.
Youth will learn basics in putting on a show from start to finish. Lessons will include history, dance, drama activities, scene building, and tech support. The program will culminate with a stage production for the community.
Eritrean Association of Greater Seattle $6,000 Eritrean youth will participate in weekly lessons year-round focused on Eritrean dance, culture, and language. Participants will learn and rehearse traditional Eritrean dances, practice the Tigrinya language, study various aspects of Eritrean culture, and perform at variety of community events.
Gage Academy of Arts $3,500 Artists will provide visual arts techniques and skill-building mentorships to teens at two sites that will close with an annual, month-long exhibit. Girls Rock! Seattle $9,000 Youth will participate in music and positive aspects of rock culture lessons and coaching by female musician role models that will close with performances of original songs.
Na'ah Illahee Fund $3,000 Artists will offer instruction to young women as cultural bearers through basket weaving, carving, storytelling, spoken word and film-making. A community exhibit and screening closes the session. Peterson, Andy ( Seattle Robotic Arts!)
$6,000 Seattle Robotic Arts! is a free, out-of-school art/technology program for youth in Seattle Public Schools. Youth are encouraged to explore their presumptions and associations with technology while developing connections with visual art through learning opportunities and exploratory play.
Photographic Center Northwest $6,000 New Views, formerly Club Photo, is as an after-school program hosted by Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW). This summer immersion program teaches photography alongside language and American culture to immigrant and refugee students at Seattle World School (SWS).
Three film-makers will offer afterschool video production workshops including media literacy, creative vision, and storytelling for girls who will produce their own short films. Richard Hugo House $3,500 Teens will produce new work in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction through creative writing sessions given by artists via workshops that will culminate in readings.
Sawhorse Revolution $6,000 High school age girls and female-identified youth from Central and South Seattle will work with professional women in design and craft building fields to design and construct a custom community structure with lasting benefit for a partnering community group. School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts $6,000 SANCA's Roda Program blends arts-based learning with work-readiness training in a Social Circus context.
Emphasizing 21st century skills: creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration, circus skills are used as a transformational metaphor for personal and social development.
Seattle Jazz Orchestra $1,400 Provide supplemental band and jazz music instruction to teens at a week-long, summer camp led by local jazz scholars at Chief Sealth High School Sondra Segundo ( Haida Roots) $6,000 Haida Roots is a culture preservation project that will connect urban Seattle Haida youth to their critically endangered language through dance, writing, and art.
Spectrum Dance Theater $9,000 High school youth will receive in-depth learning experience in music, and cultural history of African dance and its evolution to American Tap dance. Sessions will culminate in a school-community performance. Sumayya Diop ( Griot Gurlz!)
$6,000 Students will take a sojourn of culture from Africa to America through dance, theater, drumming, music and spoken word poetry! Middle school girls will participate in multimedia/multidisciplinary arts classes, and will receive mentoring by Seattle based female artists.
Classes include African dance, song, drum, Hip Hop, emceeing and culture, theatre arts, griot/poetry/rhyme, and spoken word, culminating in a share for family, community. The Filipino Community of Seattle $6,000 Bringing Filipino folktales to life through theater. The Filipino Community of Seattle in collaboration with Youth Theater Northwest will offer three 12-week theater workshops for middle and high school students.
Youth will build acting skills, learn Filipino culture through folktales and gain confidence and experience in the performing arts. In this fall after school program Urban ArtWorks will work with King County adjudicated youth to provide subsidized work and art training after school Monday-Thursday. Through the creation of site specific murals youth will connect with their community in a positive way.
WA Asian Pacific Islander Community Services $4,000 Four artists will lead music, writing and visual arts sessions incorporating culturally-relevant life skills, music production and business elements to youth. Wing Luke Memorial Foundation ( YouthCAN at The Wing) $6,000 YouthCAN is The Wing's free, out-of-school arts and leadership program for Asian Pacific American high school students.
Guided by local artists, original artworks produced by teens are displayed in The Wing's Youth Gallery three times a year. YouthCAN works have also appeared in community venues.
Young Strings Project Outreach/Whidbey Island Waldorf School $6,000 World Youth Orchestra professional classical musicians will provide sequential orchestral and stringed instrument (viola, violin, cello) instruction, including basic technique, ensemble skills, and music theory, for immigrant, refugee, and mainstream teens and will culminate in three concerts in December, March and June.
Seven artists will lead year-long, film-digital photography sessions for teens that will close with an exhibition of images, self-portraits and artist statements. 2015-16 Youth Arts Awards The program will provide 200 southeast/west young people with 528 hours of after-school, multi-art, and leadership classes by seven artists that will culminate in showcases at each site plus service-learning assignments.
Associated Recreation Council The program will teach 30 hours of Native cedar carving and restoration skills to eight at-risk youth by two artists. The project will close with an event showcasing ceremonial traditions open to the public.
Common Language Project, The The program will offer 40 refugee/immigrant teens an intensive workshop including 48 hours of research, reporting, and publishing workshops by three artists as an introduction to create and share their own content for a public showcase. Intensives are pipelines to journalism apprenticeships.
Cornish College of the Arts Ten artists will lead 100 hours of summer, pre-college team intensives with critiques for 50 teen producers-in-progress that culminate in a public performance. Eight deaf artists plus an ASL translator will lead 112 hours of playwriting-theater summer camp workshops for 15 deaf teens and kids of deaf adults. Camp will end with a performance by youth.
The program will offer 64 hours of fused traditional and contemporary dance-theater-spoken word-hip-hop-song where 13 middle school girls will explore cultural bridges and give a community performance. The program will offer after-school sessions taught by four artists providing 338 hours of hands-on design and production of 'ofrendas' (altars) elements for 60 young people.
It will close with three Day of the Dead celebrations at two schools and one neighborhood site. Extraordinary Futures/Shunpike Through 180 hours of breakdancing, meditation, yoga, and mentoring by a single performing artist, 15 youth will participate in a showcase at community events with city and countywide peers. 40 at-risk teens will participate in writing, literature circles with reflection and readings taught by a novelist.
International Capoeira Angola Foundation Seven lead and guest artists will teach 15 teen fundamental movements, world music, and history including written and spoken reflection that transform aggression and violence into a non-competitive form. Audio story-music and visual arts pieces will be generated by 30 youth with disabilities who will engage in 100 hours of radio drama sessions led by 10 artists for an in-studio installation.
Three artists will lead 30 hours of visual arts and literature for 15 young people to explore destruction and repair. Books with narratives and artworks will be generated and exhibited. The program will offer 82 hours of scriptwriting and theater by two artists for 16 teens with learning and physical challenges plus homeless teens at two sites.
It will close with community performances. Mercer Middle School PTSA 40 hours of Liberation Theater workshops blended with hip-hop culture focused on Beacon Hill as "home" will be led by three artists for 25 youth and culminate with a community showcase. 45 Native youth will create a short film, video games and engage in traditional arts through 70 hours of hands-on instruction taught by four artists at different sites.
A month-long gallery show with all artworks will close sessions. 15 teens will be led through 120 hours of after-school b-boying/b-girling and the history of hip-hop culture led by one artist and two guest artists. Choreographed and original
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